05-21-2010, 01:55 PM
I bet you could still do MMORPGs on dial-up. These games don't tend to be that dependent on latency and just from a perspective of cost to the company it makes sense to keep bandwidth requirements low.
Twitch FPS gaming would suck but maybe you'd still have some options. The TF2 engineer is a very lag friendly class for instance, and to a large extent so is the Heavy (which only "aims" in a rather vague way anyway). Your days as a TF2 sniper or scout are probably coming to an end, though.
RTS games tend to be latency friendly, though some of them can be bandwidth hogs. I bet you'd be fine in Starcraft 2, though.
How's cell phone reception?
I wonder if you can do some sort of unlimited data plan and get your PC to connect to that somehow.
There may be some kind of option for trying to find the nearest person who DOES have broadband and figuring out a way to hook into that. Microwave transmitters and receivers? Wireless with boosters? I can only imagine that there are cheaper ways to get a signal over 1.25 miles than $44,000 would buy.
Twitch FPS gaming would suck but maybe you'd still have some options. The TF2 engineer is a very lag friendly class for instance, and to a large extent so is the Heavy (which only "aims" in a rather vague way anyway). Your days as a TF2 sniper or scout are probably coming to an end, though.
RTS games tend to be latency friendly, though some of them can be bandwidth hogs. I bet you'd be fine in Starcraft 2, though.
How's cell phone reception?
I wonder if you can do some sort of unlimited data plan and get your PC to connect to that somehow.
There may be some kind of option for trying to find the nearest person who DOES have broadband and figuring out a way to hook into that. Microwave transmitters and receivers? Wireless with boosters? I can only imagine that there are cheaper ways to get a signal over 1.25 miles than $44,000 would buy.